Parents and pupils on Skye were celebrating last night after a sheriff banned Highland Council from closing their schools. Education chiefs had planned to merge primaries at Dunvegan, Edinbane, Knockbeck and Struan, and provide a new £8million building ...

The council's plan involved the closure of the small primaries at Edinbane, Knockbreck and Struan. However, in May Scottish Government ministers called in the proposals, and referred the decision to the review panel, which was set up to allow parents a ...

The School Closure Review Panel has refused to allow Highland Council to go ahead with plans to shut primary schools at Edinbane, Struan, Knockbreck and Dunvegan in the north of Skye. The local authority had sought to replace them with a purpose-built ...

A new panel set up to review school closure plans has, for the first time, overturned a decision by a Scottish council to shut schools in its area. Highland Council had wanted to close Edinbane, Dunvegan, Knockbreck and Struan primaries and construct a ...

There's a hint of long-term succession planning in the Peatbog Faeries's seventh album. Might Archie Maclean, the nine-year-old piper from Edinbane on the Isle of Skye who composed the remarkably mature and readily assimilated The Dragon's Apprentice, ...

An independent panel is decide on Highland Council's plans to close four schools on Skye and replace them with a new building on one of the sites. The local authority has proposed shutting Edinbane, Dunvegan, Knockbreck and Struan primaries.